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Risking the Apocalypse for Dollars – Paul Jay
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Extraction, Destruction of Ecosystems, and Fires in North America – Éric Pineault
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His recent book A Social Ecology of Capital presents an empirical analysis of capitalist societies, which both builds on and enhances Marxist theories by accounting for the energy extraction and colonization of ecosystems, a characteristic of what he terms our “fossil-industrial” society. His conception of capitalist metabolism outlines extractivism, production, consumption, and waste dissipation, which leads to an absorption of surplus energy, capital accumulation, and profit maximization. Most importantly, how is this understanding of social ecology useful for furthering a project of emancipation?
Towards a Green Economy: Private or Public? – Robert Pollin on RAI (8/8)
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Artificial Intelligence in Whose Interests? – RAI with Rana Foroohar Pt 6/6
On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Foroohar and host Paul Jay discuss the merging of finance and big tech and the threat AI poses to working people and the economy; they also discuss the potential of AI in addressing the climate crisis and making a more rational and equal society possible – with host Paul Jay. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced May 9, 2018.
Après Moi, le Déluge – Christopher Williams on Reality Asserts Itself (pt 5/5)
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Holy Sh*t. I thought I was the only one who called CCS and running everything on hydrogen fuel cell technology BS. Funny videos that get to the point. 90% of the people on this planet don’t want to take a bus, train, walk, or cycle anywhere. We are still making Ford F350’s for people commuting to work. China is building 30 new coal plants. People would rather believe made up shit from a man with fake hair than a PHD who spends there life dedicated to science with peer review. We’re doomed.